Alan Cumyn (born 8 January 1960) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Born in Ottawa, Alan Cumyn studied at Royal Roads Military College in 1983, and Queen's University before earning an M.A.
[1] He has lived across Canada and in China and Indonesia, and worked variously as a geologist's assistant, group home manager, tai chi instructor, English teacher, program officer in international development, human rights researcher and freelance writer.
Cumyn's fiction focuses on personal and political relations, often in a cross-cultural context.
In 2016 he won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People for his body of work.